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slipd

slipd

slipd

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Guys,

I'm after recommendations for an online website builder that's a one-stop shop for the domain registration, hosting and creation of a website. It's not for me but I've been asked by a family member and I'm keen to offload any sort of ownership or responsibility as soon as :p

Doesn't need to be anything fancy, no eCommerce or anything. Ideas? The only name that springs to mind is GoDaddy?
 
Hmm, I have used them before but I remember doing everything through some downloadable setup files having already registered from my domain and hosting. They've obviously grown :D
 
dowie said:
as opposed to an offline website builder? :confused:
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Yeah, going back a few years mind... You had to download a setup pack from WordPress and then upload it to your hosting provided and administer it from there. It looks as though everything is done through the WP portal now.
 
I use 123-reg, they seem to have a lot of templates in their basic package, and 5 domain emails, I think all in i was £72 for the year, with two domain names (.co.uk and .com) for two years.

support seems ok as well, with service updates etc. with reasonable down times for maintenance.
 
slipd said:
Yeah, going back a few years mind... You had to download a setup pack from WordPress and then upload it to your hosting provided and administer it from there. It looks as though everything is done through the WP portal now.
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I think you're on about wordpress.org. You can either host Wordpress yourself or you can basically create an instance on wordpress.com's infrastructure. To my knowledge that's been the case for many years.
 
Do these builders have an impact on web developers? It's so easy to get an information site up, not sure about anything more advanced like e-commerce systems.
 
People are still prepared to pay (a lot of) money for a completely custom site that does exactly what they want, and someone else to keep it updated for them. I'd imagine it's hit the work of the hobbyist web dev who was just throwing content at an off-the-shelf WordPress template and running it on the cheapest platform they could find and then never patching it.
 
Noxia said:
Do these builders have an impact on web developers? It's so easy to get an information site up, not sure about anything more advanced like e-commerce systems.
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I make more money as a web des/dev building WordPress sites than I do "normal" sites :-)

ECommerce is fine as well - WooCommerce is a good eCommerce WordPress plug in.
 
Noxia said:
Do these builders have an impact on web developers? It's so easy to get an information site up, not sure about anything more advanced like e-commerce systems.
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For e-commerce you have things like Shopify (proprietary, hosted, like Blogger) or Magento (open source, self hosted, like wordpress.org though obviously there are people dedicated to hosting Magento instances). These are probably the two most popular solutions, though I don't have any actual numbers.

I guess they affect web developers to some extent. The online builders are probably good enough for people starting out, and then later they can bring in developers to help them extend the system or custom build something for their exact needs.
 
Caged said:
I'd imagine it's hit the work of the hobbyist web dev who was just throwing content at an off-the-shelf WordPress template and running it on the cheapest platform they could find and then never patching it.
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I've used WordPress once to test it out, by the time I got the site working as I wanted it was just a messy collection of bloated unresponsive crap.

Ended up coding my own site from scratch, with 99.99% less resource usage and about 10,000 less lines of code.

Granted, WordPress has it's uses, but is just overkill for some things it's used for.
 
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